Custom Solutions

After looking for a day at how to change the blue of the UISwitch to a different color so it can match my theme in PocketMoney I ended up writing my own. This will let you change the tintColor and the labels. If you want to modify other aspect so fit to change the label to images you’ll have to modify the .png files.

This code can be freely used in any kind of project as long as the copyright information stays intact. If you improve on the code then please share it back to me so I can integrate it in with my code.

UICustomSwitch.zip – UICustomSwitch .h/.m and project test file

Code snippets forum: UICustomSwitch – color it, change labels, change log

I’ve posted the source for my UIImage-Extensions to my forums. It is a utility category for UIImage that allows you to get an piece of an image, scale an image, and rotate an image.

UIImage-Extensions source

- (UIImage *)imageAtRect:(CGRect)rect;

- (UIImage *)imageByScalingProportionallyToMinimumSize:(CGSize)targetSize;

- (UIImage *)imageByScalingProportionallyToSize:(CGSize)targetSize;

- (UIImage *)imageByScalingToSize:(CGSize)targetSize;

- (UIImage *)imageRotatedByRadians:(CGFloat)radians;

- (UIImage *)imageRotatedByDegrees:(CGFloat)degrees;

With a special thanks to Ben Gottlieb for getting the rotate to work.

I decided to create some video tutorials for my applications for the iPhone. I needed the tutorials to work on the iPhone, too, and that took some hair pulling.

So after hours of searching and trial an error here is what seems to work for me.
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